distracted living

“Lift up your eyes and look around;

they gather altogether, they come to you;” Isaiah 60:4a

arms cramped with plastic

bags of food for her kids,

a young mother trudges

through a driving painstorm,

soaked to her soul;

as the winter storm

roars into town, a

PTSDed vet huddles

in a doorway just across

from the shelter

that has no more beds;

at the bus stop, a

child stands off from

his classmates, with a look

that says, ‘will give everything

for a friend,’ but

we are too busy

looking down at our

devices

to notice

© 2019 Thom M. Shuman